Adventure Quote by Helen Russell Download Open image ““Being too thin isn't particularly desirable here. Women eat.”” — Helen Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Confidence Danes Danish Humor Love Self love Travel Women
“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.” — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“Obese people have really begun to eat up a lot of my free time. That’s the skinny on my life.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“People prefer the stories of the too-skinny girls who starve themselves and exercise too much and are gray and gaunt and disappearing in plain… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“You know a girl has turned into a woman when she concentrates less on grabbing food and more on making “others” eat.” — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
“for the vast majority of people, being overweight is not caused by how much they eat but by what they eat.” — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
“That was the first time I realized that weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that the better educated and wealthier a nation is, the less likely its… — Helen Russell Copy Share Image
“... if you're not happy with who you're waking up with most mornings, make a change -- if you want something (or someone) else,… — Helen Russell Copy Share Image
“we were both home by 7pm in time for The Archers, it was a cause for celebration. More often than not, we only saw… — Helen Russell Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
